I got this too, starting in middle school when I started at a school where there were more black students than at my elementary school. I was in the Gifted/Talented Program so I had friends of all races, but we all pretty much talked alike. Anyways, one day another black girl at the school came up to me and asked me if I was mixed. I'm like
standing there trying to figure out where she was going with this question. I was like um...no. She's like your mom isn't white? Again, no. Finally she just came out with it and said, well why do you talk like that? In my 13 year old mind I'm like WTF? But I just walked away. Anyways being told that I was talking white or trying to act white really used to bother me. Now, after attending an HBCU where plenty of people "talk white" I just say that this is me and I'm not apologizing to anyone for speaking proper english.
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